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SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists 2011 Award Pimpage Post

As I posted my own SF/F Award-eligible works yesterday (see here if you somehow missed it), I figured I’d also open up a thread for other creative folks to note their own eligible works from the last year to Whatever’s readership. Because, hey, the more you know about what’s out there, the more informed your nominations will be, and that’s a good thing.

So, science fiction and fantasy authors, editors, artists: Tell us what works of yours are eligible for award consideration this year.

And now: Rules!

1. This thread is only for authors/artists/editors to promote their own works (or in the case of editors, the works they have edited). If you’re not an author/artist/editor promoting your own work, don’t post on the thread. I’ll be doing a general recommendation thread later on. Any comment not by an author/artist/editor promoting his/her own work will get snipped out. This is to keep the thread useful both to creators and to folks thinking about nominations.

2. Also, to be clear, this thread is for works of or relating to science fiction and fantasy. This includes Young Adult works and SF/F fandom-related works. If you’re not sure your particular work is eligible for awards this year, please check. A general rule of thumb is that works published in the 2010 calendar year are eligible for consideration for this year’s awards nominations.

3. Authors/Artists/Editors: Feel free to either list your eligible works in the comments and/or link to a blog post outlining your eligible works, if you’ve already done the latter.

4. If you list your work, please also mention the category you expect it will be eligible in, to help folks with their nomination choices. My assumption is that generally speaking you’ll use the Hugo and Nebula categories, but if another award has a category outside those, feel free to list it too (for example, anthologies). Note to short fiction writers: This will be especially important for you to do this because people may not know whether to file your work into the short story, novelette or novella categories.

5. If you want to include links to your works, please feel free, but be aware that posts with many links may be initially punted into the moderation queue. Don’t panic when that happens, I’ll be going through regularly to free them. HOWEVER, please make sure that before you post, you check all your links and formatting. There is no preview button here.

6. One post per creator, please.

So: Authors! Artists! Editors! What do you want people to keep in mind for this awards nomination season?

I (and my lovely co-editor Carol Kirkman) have put together a list of stories from our magazine (Basement Stories) that are eligible for the Hugos here. I’m fairly certain that all those stories are also eligible for the Nebulas. Thanks again.

What I’d most want to highlight is that Lightspeed Magazine is eligible in the semiprozine category, as is all of the original fiction I published there in 2010.

It’s hard to single out any stories in particular, but I’ll point out a few that were picked up by Year’s Best editors for inclusion in best-of-the-year anthologies, so, in essence, it’s not just me recommending them:

This is where I remind people to please be clear as to which categories they want people to think about nominating your work. Short fiction writers — SF/F nominators will be happy to know whether your story is a short story, a novelette or a novella.

The one thing I would like to point people to from 2010 is my short story, “Twittering the Stars,” which is told entirely in tweets, and can be read backwards and forwards. It appeared in Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, and I feel very comfortable recommending the entire anthology to everyone’s attention – I was so thrilled to be with other great short stories. But I’m particularly proud of pulling this off.

I’ve put up a blog post with my picks for awards consideration. (slightly amended from my original version, since I realised that my story “The Shipmaker”, published in the UK, was actually eligible for the Hugos).

As a zine editor, I put the list of eligible stories, etc. on my blog recently, but I would particularly like to draw attention to Gwendolyn Clare, whose short story “The Other Lila” I published this year, and who is in her second year of eligibility for the Campbell for Best New Writer, and to recommend a (marginally shorter) short list of the short stories in particular for consideration:

My contemporary YA fantasy Thief Eyes came out in 2010 and so is Norton eligible — it’s based on the Icelandic sagas (Njal’s Saga especially) and the woman best known for refusing her husband two locks of her hair to restring his bow in battle. Also, there’s unstable geology, a shapeshifting polar bear, and a rather mythic arctic fox. :-)

Because I’d like to get more people to read it, I am promoting one story of mine, “The Vostrasovitch Clockwork Animal and Traveling Forest Show at the End of the World.” It was a hard story to get right, and I put a lot of love and elbow grease into it, not to mention advanced evolved steampunk microbials.

My first published short story, “We Don’t Plummet Out of the Sky Anymore,” is eligible for 2010 nominations. The story appeared in print form with the publication of Stupefying Stories: “It Came From The Slushpile”, an anthology edited by Bruce Bethke, and has also featured prominently as a free download at Smashwords.com, where, as of around midnight, New Year’s Eve, it attained 40,000 downloads, and is currently ranked as their fourth most-downloaded work of all time.

This particular story was also featured in an eBook Signing Event hosted by MobileRead.com. Over the course of five days I hand-signed and assembled several hundred eBooks — very good for word-of-mouth publicity! — and the event was covered in at least three foreign languages, on blogs and eBook news sites around the world.

“We Don’t Plummet Out of the Sky Anymore” may be read and/or downloaded from Smashwords.com, as HTML (suitable for web browsers), MOBI (suitable for Kindle), EPUB (suitable for numerous e-Reader devices, including Apple’s iPad, and modern Sony devices), PDF (suitable for any device capable of displaying Adobe’s format of choice) or LRF (suitable for older Sony readers): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/12590

I should also note that, to the best of my knowledge, I am not yet eligible to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (although it would be a tremendous honor!), because my first professional sale is still unpublished, and currently slated to appear in a 2011 issue of Bull Spec.

Thank you, John, for the opportunity to be my own shameless shill and remind readers of print media that my novella, “Orfy,” in the Sept./Oct 2010 F&SF, is eligible, if unworthy, for a Hugo nomination. Hell, all I want is an excuse to go to Reno and share coldcuts and veggies in the Green Room with the immortals (which may not be a bad title for a story, come to think of it).

At Hadley Rille Books, we published four novels and six anthologies/collections in 2010. They are all available from Amazon and also on Kindle and in some bookstores. I edited 8 of those 10 books and am listing them (and the stories from the anthologies/collections) below.

If you would like a free electronic copy sent to you to review for Hugo consideration, please email me at: e r i c r e y n o l d s AT y a h o o DOT c o m. Put “Hugo” in the subject line.

THRALL, a prehistoric Fantasy novel by Kimberly Todd Wade (September)
Thrall earned a positive review in Publishers Weekly and is a story set tens of thousands of years ago at the dawn of modern human consciousness. It is a very fun read and as PW says, it gets the mental gears turning.

FINDER, a Fantasy novel by Terri-Lynne DeFino (November)
Finder earned a positive review in Library Journal which said: “DeFino’s first novel creates an exotic desert environment as a backdrop to the story of a young man’s coming-of-age and a young woman’s search for the only family she has left. VERDICT Compelling characters and a fascinating world background make this a good addition to most fantasy collections.”

TRANSCENDENCE, a Science Fiction novel by Christopher McKitterick (November)
Transcendence earned a positive review in Library Journal which said: “Short story writer McKitterick’s first novel tells a larger-than-life cautionary tale of men and women in crisis and of the dangers posed by an out-of-control technology. VERDICT Readers who enjoyed the cyberpunk feel of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash as well as the cosmic fiction of James Blish’s Cities in Flight should welcome the author’s full-length sf debut.” Note, Chris has also offered an electronic version for free. Go to http://www.sff.net/people/mckitterick/Me/Transcendence1.htm.

THE NORTHERN QUEEN, a Fantasy novel by Kim Vandervort (December)
The Northern Queen earned a positive review in Booklist which said: “With so many new plotlines and a cliffhanger ending, at least one sequel must in the works. Suggest to fans of Ken Scholes Psalms of Isaak series(Antiphon, 2010) who are looking for something a little lighter and less complex.” They also added that those, including younger readers, who read her first novel The Song and the Sorceress will want to stay the course.

LIFE WITHOUT CROWS, a collection of SF and F short stories by Gerri Leen. Dean Wesley Smith called this a “wonderful collection.” Mike Resnick said it’s “is a most impressive debut collection.”
New stories:
“Opposites and All That”
“Dreams of Love and Darkness”
“Found Things”
“Race Day”
“Here by Choice”
“Waiting” “Where the Sheep Have Fangs When You Count Them”

RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL TALES, edited by Eric T. Reynolds and Gerri Leen, a collection of five Fantasy novelettes set in or about Renaissance Faires:
“Faire Aria” by Kim Vandervort,
“Silk and Velvet” by M.C. Chambers
“Cupid for a Day” by Julia Dvorin
“Playing With Fire” by Paula H. Murray
“The Thief and the Thorn” by Camille Alexa.

My 2010 debut fantasy novel, Shadow’s Son (Gollancz/Pyr Books), has been nominated for the Gemmell Award for Fantasy, in both the Legend and Morningstar categories. Voting is open to anyone on the award site (http://gemmellaward.com/).

The one work of mine that I’d like to point out is a Short Story titled “Hope.” It appeared in the Destination: Future anthology from Hadley Rille and PW called it “sublimely moving.” It’s my understanding that Hadley Rille will be posting it soon for folks to read.

This is ALSO my second year of eligibility for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. My Writertopia biography and bibliography are here.

If you are nominating for the Campbell and would like to read more of my work, I have also just released a small, free, illustrated e-book that collects the first four of my published short stories. It is available on my website, at keffy.com/four.html. This includes “Daha’s Son.”

I currently only have the PDF file format available, but I plan on putting epub up as soon as I get the formatting figured out.

Wow, what a great opportunity to say a few words about the series I’ve been working on for nearly 6 years now.
The First Trilogy of the Ardwellian Chronicles is complete, a series of novels detailing the exploits and adventures of three families in particular.
The elves, Sheynon and Ysilrod Calidriil, brothers who saw their parents murdered during the Purge; the humans Shiva Lahai and his son Thalion, one unwittingly instrumental in the Purge’s beginnings, the other in its end; and Audrey Vincent, crusader and Champion from the lands north, taking up the Sword and the Word against those perpetrating the evil of the Purge.
The first novel, Secret Fire, tells the story of Sheynon’s growth from a simple thief to a lord by his own hand, and the sacrifices made to find the greatest treasure in elven history.
Dark Way of Anger follows, with the land having suffered for 25 years of war and genocide, and the struggles of Thalion, Ysilrod, and Audrey to end its stranglehold. The third book, Secrets of the Second Sun, tells of the time when gods were mortal and betrayal was at the very heart of the forces that shaped the Ardwellian history.
If you enjoy complex plots, characters with flaws as great as their strengths, and heroes and villains matching wits and crossing swords (with a bit of magic thrown in), The Ardwellian Chronicles might be just what you’re looking for.
My website is http://www.ardwelwriter.com and my blog is http://www.theardwellianchronicles.blogspot.com. Please visit and let me know what you think.
Happy reading!

My novel, Five Wounds, was published in Australia in May 2010 with Allen & Unwin (some of you may have seen copies at Aussiecon). The US publication is scheduled for 1 May 2011, so it will be eligible I think. See http://www.fivewoundsthenovel.com for more information.

Sorry for the multiple posts. The Hugo website offers this clarification on works first published outside the US:

Because such a huge proportion of the people who nominate on the Hugo Awards are in the USA, and because those people often do not get to see works first published outside the USA until a year later when those works get US publication, WSFS has been experimenting with extending the eligibility of works first published outside the USA. This extension has to be renewed annually by the WSFS Business Meeting, and historically has not always been extended since the rule was adopted allowing it. Check the Hugo Award nominating ballot for the current year to see whether works published in prior years outside of the USA are eligible if they were published for the first time in the USA in the current year.

However, I don’t have this year’s nominating ballot available. Can anyone clarify if the relevant clause is in force this year? If it is, I’m eligible for 2011 only.

In any case, it’s all academic really. I’m not expecting to see my name on any shortlists …

Reminder also to people that I asked for “one post per creator,” which means that it’s probably better if you organize your posts ahead of time. Don’t worry, the thread will still be here once you have.

Many thanks, John, and likewise to everyone for posting their stuff. I try to read everything everywhere by everyone, and yet somehow seem to fail. Doesn’t stop me trying, though, nor looking for more suggestions.

I have three eligible stories from 2010, which also happen to be my first three stories period. They were all published in Asimov’s; let me take the opportunity to once again thank Sheila Williams for her support and advice. For SFWA members, these are available in the Nebula downloads section, and don’t forget that Asimov’s is available digitally via Fictionwise and Amazon’s Kindle store.

Hey there! My fantasy novel The Northern Queen is eligible in the novel category. Booklist gave it a great review, and specifically recommended it to fans of Ken Scholes. Would love it if you would take a look and consider it for awards this season! Also, please consider my editor, Eric T. Reynolds of Hadley Rille Books, for the best editor categories. Thanks!

Been talking about this over at my own blog, but in particular I’d like to pimp The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, a novel, from Orbit Books. Should be eligible for international awards as well as US-only awards. I have short stories and a second novel eligible, but if people have to make a choice — which they do — I’d ask that they pick that one. :)

I had a number of stories come out this year, and I’d most like to call attention to the following three:

The Robot’s Girl – a novelette that was published in Analog
The Hebra’s and the Demons and the Damned – a short story that was published in Analog, and
My Father’s Singularity, a short story that was published in Clarkesworld which can also be heard on audio, narrated by the very capable Kate Baker. This story was also picked up by Gardener Dozois for his Year’s Best anthology.

My novelette “Exanastasis” appeared in Writers of the Future, vol. XXVI.

But I think I am proudest of my novelette “Outbound,” which was the anchor story in the November 2010 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact. Got a double-page, gorgeous illustration on that, my first ever story where I won page space among long-working professionals.

All of my current works are listed on my website at http://www.kristadball.com. However, I’d like to draw special attention to my novella “Harvest Moon”, a paranormal fantasy that explores identity through the shunning of a Canadian aboriginal woman.

It’s published through MuseItUp Publishing, a Canadian epublisher, and available as a single-title purchase.

I have two pieces eligible in the short story category, both published in Asimov’s: “Conditional Love” (January) and “The Termite Queen of Tallulah County.” (October/November.) I’m particularly proud of “Conditional Love.”

The following works from the Okal Rel Universe (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasty / Absolute XPress) are eligible for the Aurora Award for 2010, in the categories listed. And thanks John, for lighting this little campfire for all us crazy creatives. I heard about it via Broad Universe mailing list.

I am very proud of my short science fiction story “My Father’s Eyes”, which was published in Sybil’s Garage No. 7, edited by Matthew Kressel of Senses Five Press. I would be delighted if eligible members considered nominating it for the Nebula and/or Hugo.

On the Hugo ballot, I’m eligible for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. This is my first year of eligibility. Writertopia does not have any info up for me (as of 4 January 2010). However, you can learn more about me and my work at my Website at http://www.ShaunaRoberts.com.

I hope that it’s okay for a creator of a Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) to pimp here. My video comedy project (beyond question, the most acclaimed SF elevator talk show in all of fandom), has a 9-minute movie that I web-published in 2010.

“Vertically-Mobile Comedy: The ‘Eric in the Elevator’ Story”: vimeo link.

Thank you, John! (Sorry that you couldn’t make the LosCon screening party in 2008.)

My podcast is technically eligible for a Hugo: The Skiffy and Fanty Show (http://skiffyandfanty.wordpress.com/). I think we can technically be nominated for the fan-zine category, or whichever category Starship Sofa was nominated for last year.

Thanks for letting us throw our crap on your blog, by the way. Tis awesome.

My short story “Holdfast” was published in December in Fantasy Magazine: you can read it at http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/12/holdfast/
It’s been selected for Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, so at the very least it should be worth your time!

As well, I published a novelette, “Written by the Winners,” in the anthology _Timelines_ from Northern Frights Press. SFWA members can download it in the Novelette section of the Nebulas board.

My novel MAD SKILLS (Ace Books) was just released on Dec. 28, 2010. It’s a subversive book, so I’m grateful for the chance to propose it for Hugo or Nebula consideration.

Also published in 2010 was my novel XOMBIES: APOCALYPTICON (Ace), which I would love to see get a little awards attention, since it is a serious work–really. Hey, I don’t control what goes on the cover!

Anyway, thanks for this opportunity to pitch my books, John. You’re a prince.

It has a short story by the same name in it that would also be worthy of consideration.

I also have the very well reviewed “The Chocolatier’s Wife” which is a fantasy novel. It could go under fantasy mystery, fantasy romance, or just fantasy. Here is a link: http://apenandfire.com/?page_id=507

Nobody’s still paying attention, are they? Erm, hello, post 100 here, sitting under much fine work. I had published, this year, my own favourite of my short stories, ‘Secret Identity’, in the Masked anthology. Gay Manchester-based superhero doing magic, what more could you want? I will give all nominators a biscuit. (Terms and conditions apply, biscuit is British version of biscuit, not that thing you mop gravy with.)

My new science-ficiton thriller novel Amortals came out in the UK in November, so it’s eligible for the Hugo and BFSA awards. Because it didn’t get to the US until a few days ago, it’s not ready for the Nebulas until next year.

I know that the participating authors are touting their individual stories for Hugo & Nebula consideration. Here’s the list with the appropriate short fiction category. (This is based on my word count…):

NOVELLA
THE BULL DANCERS by Jay Lake
A SYMMETRY OF SERPENTS AND DOVES by Ken Scholes

I should mention the ConNotations fanzine, published by the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society (CASFS), which is eligible for nomination for best fanzine. It has been going for 20 years now and I’ve been contributing the SF Tube Talk column and occasional interviews, such as the one with Connie Wilis in the most recent issue.. Issues are available to read online at http://casfs.org/ConNotations/Index-CN.html

I am the senior editor of Bad-Ass Faeries 3: In All Their Glory (finalist for the 2011 EPIC Award for Best Anthology) and Dragon’s Lure, both of which published this year and should qualify for Best Anthology or Best Short Story Collection.

Also, if you’re eligible to vote in this year’s Hugo awards, you can email me for a free pdf copy of Hereville. (If you’d prefer paper — and I’ll be honest, I think it looks nicer on paper — it’s available in bookstores, on Amazon, etc.)

Oh, and I realized there are a few more things that are technically eligible that I’ve been a part of in some way or another:

Crimethink — Politics and Speculative Fiction is eligible for Best Related Work. I have an essay in there, but there are loads of other great folks in it (Jay Lake, Nisi Shawl, and Gary Westfahl, for example). The book is here

I also had a short story published last year which is eligible for Best Short Story. Called “To Paint the Kingdom Red” (Part One; Part Two).

And my blog technically makes me eligible for Best Fan Writer, though this year is the first time I think I’ve done something worthy of consideration.

Hopefully Lord Scalzi is okay with the double post. All of these things slipped my mind earlier…

I’d like to mention my novel TOOTHLESS. It’s a zombie apocalypse set in the middle ages that started life as podfic, and is now (as of November 2010) a trade paperback and ebook from Dragon Moon Press. Publishers Weekly says it’s “moving, intriguing, and highly entertaining.” Learn more at:

I would liketo call peoples attention to my short story “Where the Shadows Began” that appeared in Tales of the Shadowmen # 6 Grand Guignol edited by J.M. and Randy Lofficier. I’ll be happy to e-mail anyone a copy of it just contact me at sinor13@yahoo.com.

I had a novelette appear, “The Eminence’s Match,” in the Eight Against Reality anthology from Panverse Publishing. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to mention it. Congratulations to everyone here!

I have two pieces out this year which I’m really excited about. The first is a novella that was published this summer in Subterranean Online. It’s my first novella, and I’m pretty excited that it indicates that I might actually be able to write things that require more than a butterfly’s attention span.

I also wrote a quieter, more personal short story that was published on Tor.com: “The Monster’s Million Faces.” A warning on that one, though–it’s about child abuse. It’s not graphic, but people might want to be aware of what it’s about before they head over.

I’ve had 2 short stories out this year; the one that I would love to see nominated (and that is the most confusing for same) is:
“The Man with the Knives”
New York: Temporary Culture, May 2010. Reprinted:Tor, online, Dec. 2010:http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/12/the-man-with-the-knives
for your easy reading pleasure.
It’s confusing because it came out in chapbook form – but trust me, at 4,800 words, it really is a short story.

It will be reprinted in
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5, ed. Jonathan Stahan
San Francisco: Night Shade Books, March 2011
. . . but that’s a bit late in the game, isn’t it?

This year I only have one story eligible. It’s a novelette called “Map of Seventeen” and was originally published in The Beastly Bride, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. It’s been selected to be reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, by editor Jonathan Strahan, as well as in Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, by editor Steve Berman.

It can be read by members of SFWA in the novelette section of the reading room, too.

I have one short story eligible for awards for 2010, “The Whirlwind,” which appeared in the January-February 2011 issue of _Fantasy and Science Fiction_. I hasten to add that, although that issue is dated 2011, it went on sale December 28, 2010 and is copyrighted 2010.

Thank you, John. You do quite a lot to benefit other writers and the community.

I have posted about my own eligible works here. I had one novel and two novelettes out in 2010. One of the latter (“Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)”) will be reprinted in Jonathan Strahan’s Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.

Of the short stories, my personal favorite is titled “Remembrance of Things Past” (yeah, I stole the title, but that title is definitely in the public domain and I liked it …) which was published in Abyss & Apex in their Fourth Quarter 2010 issue.

The remaining short stories are listed here, along with where they were published, in no particular order:

My website at http://teenangel.netfirms.com has more information on “The Ghost of Grover’s Ridge,” links to some of these stories that were published in free e-zines, and buy links for some of the anthologies.

Wow! I have been reminded that my novel Blade Light, serialized in Jim Baen’s Universe in 2009, is STILL eligible for a Campbell award! Now, I wouldn’t dream of asking any of you to nominate it, sight unseen. But I do hope you will read it, with or without that end in mind. Alas, Jim Baen’s Universe is no longer with us so if you have trouble finding it, contact me, and I will help you find–or even give you–a copy. Just send me a message on FaceBook. (You’ll know it’s me because my picture is a panda.)

Thanks, John, so very much, for this opportunity to promote my book to the world. And thanks, World, for reading this note, and some of you reading my book!
Michaele Jordan (You know, same as the basketball player, except for that pesky ‘e’.)

I have two short stories for 2010: “The Frog Comrade” was in F&SF’s Mar/April issue, and The Guy Who Worked For Money was at shareable.net in July (the stories by other folks in that series are worth looking at as well…)

What? You haven’t read my novel Blade Light, which makes me eligible for a Campbell? NO PROBLEM! Check out my web-site and I will read it to you! The podcast is available at http://www.michaelejordan.com (but be careful of the spelling or you will end up looking at basketball pix.)